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Wear: Patriotic Corsage Make a patriotic corsage by gathering together a red silk flower, a white silk flower and a blue silk flower, all approximately the same size. Secure them together by winding wire around their stems. Add a couple of green leaves and cover with green florist stretchy tape. Tie some red white and blue ribbon, adding a flag or any other trinket that suits you. Pin over your heart with a corsage pin.
Kids: Children's Flag Art I saw this at a county fair and thought it was the dearest of ideas. Have your children or neighborhood children pull out the red, white, and blue finger paint. Take a large piece of white poster board or white flat sheet, depending upon how many participants you have, and let them stamp their hand prints in the shape of the American flag. Section off the top left corner for the blue prints (the stars of the union) and draw several straight, horizontal lines in pencil where you want the stripes to go so they can follow them to keep the stripes lined up. When it dries, they can even autograph their flag, then hang it high.
Decorate: Streamers Tie red, white, and blue ribbon streamers and bows to anything and everything including a bicycle, tricycle, pet collars and leashes, canes, walkers, strollers, wheel chairs, and from trees, balconies and lamp posts.
Decorate: Plants Got a tree or large plant indoors or on your patio? Dress it up with white twinkle lights and tri-colored ribbons and bows. Who’s to say you can’t have a Christmas tree decorated in patriotic colors?
Decorate: House Wind red, white and blue ribbon around banisters and railings of stairs. Suggest the kids decorate their rooms in our nation’s colors. Make a bouquet from red, white, and blue flowers tied with a gold bow or whatever you may have and hang it on your front door, fence, or gate.
Wear: Flag Pins Get 6 small safety pins. Fill 3 halfway with 4 tiny blue beads, then repeat 1 white bead, 1 red bead twice and end with 1 white. Next, fill 3 more small safety pins with white, red, white, red, in that order ending with white for a total of 9 beads per pin. Close your pins and lay them on the table. They should form a flag design. Hang your small safety pins on one larger safety pin, making sure they are still in the proper order. Pin to your shirt or jacket over your heart.
Decorate: Driveway Art Check out the kids' art supplies. They may already have some red, white, and blue chalk. If not, buy some sidewalk chalk and let the whole family go to work on the driveway or in the street if your road isn’t busy. If possible, include the neighborhood. Urge the gang to draw the US flag, Uncle Sam, a bald eagle, etc.
Eat: Meals Don’t forget food. Serve raspberry tea, mashed potatoes, and blueberry pie. Hey, we all know about “green eggs and ham.” Why not try blue eggs with the help of a little food coloring?
Make: Dolls Got some old fashioned wooden clothes pins around the house? Using markers, turn them into little Uncle Sams. The knob is his head. Color in a pair of red and white striped trousers. Make his upper body blue and use a pipe cleaner wound around the pin for arms. Draw on a face and pull apart a cotton ball for his beard and hair, and glue it on the knob. Glue a penny to the top of the clothespin for the brim of his hat. To that, glue a rolled (and glued) piece of red and white striped lightweight cardboard with a circle cut and glued to fit the roll and cover the hole on the top. This will complete his hat. When finished, slip him over the edge of a clay pot or basket so he’ll stand up. Or with ribbon, tie one to each napkin for napkin rings or have one standing at attention on each person’s water glass when they come to the table. Tie one to a birthday gift or put several in a patriotic wreath. Put them everywhere. Even hide them for children to find. What a touching surprise that would be!
Make: Candle Recycle a clean glass quart spaghetti sauce jar, mayo or pickle jar. Remove the lid and soak off the label. With markers, draw on stars and comets. Hand paint some stripes or randomly spray paint red, white, and blue using short taps on the paint can spray nozzle so as not to make the paint too thick. Leave some of the clear glass showing so light from a candle standing in sand will gleam through. Of course, an adult is the only person who is ever to light the candle.
Wear: Pin Make a single loop of red, white, and blue ribbon or ribbons six inches long and either hot glue or staple them where the two ends cross to secure the loop. The diagonal tips (always cut ribbon diagonally for a more professional look) should point down. Cover the staple or glue with a button or charm shaped like a star, or heart, or eagle, whatever you have available. Hot glue or stitch a brooch pin (available at your local craft store) to the back or secure it to your shirtfront with a corsage straight pin. Be sure to wear your new pin over your heart.
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